Macizo Café and DeLa Finca Specialty Coffee were named the outright Filter and Espresso category winners at the 2026 Global Coffee Awards’ Latin America regional edition, judged blind in Houston, Texas on August 12. But Filter and Espresso are each split into subcategories, from Gesha to Decaf, and every gold medal awarded within them is a real, standalone competition win: eight other roasters also took Filter or Espresso gold this year, and we cover all of them below. EspressoDrop tracks the Filter and Espresso categories specifically, since they’re the closest thing the GCA has to a standardized head to head brew comparison; the competition’s other categories (Flat White Dairy and Flat White Plant Based Milk) and its overall roastery title aren’t covered here.
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